Dangerous Animals Club
The Tobolowsky Files is one of my favorite podcasts on the web. Actor Stephen Tobolowsky (aka Ned Ryerson from Groundhog Day and a bazillion other characters) tells entertaining, heartbreaking, and hilarious stories from his life. He covers everything from childhood to overcoming difficult college professors to stories from film sets to loss of a parent. He does so honestly and with love. One of favorites was titled the Dangerous Animals Club.
He tells of he and his childhood friend spending their days collecting dangerous animals from the nearby forests and overgrown fields. This reminded me of my own childhood when my best friend and I would do the exact same thing. One summer we amassed a rather impressive collection of snakes found under our porch, spiders, toads, ants, and any other creepy crawly that we weren’t afraid to poke a stick at.
Today, I feel awful about keeping these wild animals in little cages on a shelf behind our garage and performing “experiments” on them that could only be considered torture. But as they say; boys will be boys.
This illustration is an tribute to the Tobolowsky Files and my own childhood. I’ve also submitted it to Threadless for voting so please take a moment and vote for my design to be printed as a T-shirt!!!
